St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-01
SANITY CITY DOINCS
Serious Collision On the
Tracks By Which Four Hen
We're Injured.
Inspector James Says the
Wheat This Year Is An I'm
usually Dirty Crop.
Is Asphalt Too Hard On the
Horses That Are Driv-
Ell Over It?
Gossip of the Social World
Summary Of the News
Of a Day.
TWO ENGINES; ONE TRACK.

The Usual Results to Two Trains
ia the Suburbs Yesterday.
Engine No. SO. of the st. Paul &
Duluth. made Il very expensive trial
trip to White Bear lake yesterday, and
will be remanded to the shops for very
extensive repairs. The trip out was
made all right, but Oh the return, when
running. it is asserted. at the rate of
forty miles an hour, the engine collided
with engine 81, of the Wisconsin Cen
trail. The place OF the accident was
right at the sharp curve in the cut below
Hamm'S brewery. The Wisconsin Cen
trail train was the one which daily leaves
the Union depot for Gladstone and
Castle at / o'clock. Fortunately for the
passengers their train was running at
Il SLOW rate of speed and but two
were injured and these slightly.
When the collision occurred the force
of the shock filed the engineers cabs
on both engines with coal. In the case
of the Central, Brooks, the engineer.
managed 10 keep on top OF it and to get
to the window. although badly Scalded
and bruised about the arms and legs in
doing 50. Sinks, the engineer of the
st. Paul x Duluth. was covered with
coal. his head cut badly, his hip damned
considerably. and it is thought he was
severely injured Internally. {. ii.
Owens. his fireman, also sustained
severe Injuries about the head and
CHASTITY cut across the forehead. w. S.
Cochran, the Wisconsin, Central fireman,
was the most fortunate of the four. He
jumped, about the time of the collision.
and bad cut in his lower lip is the
only injury he sustained beyond the jar
and strain from the leap.
Both engines, or rather what was left
of them, were deraied. The Duluth
engine had never pulled car and was
considered the best and strongest en-
CINE on the road.
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
The explanation of the collision most
generally accepted, is that Sinks, the
st. Paul and Duluth engineer, forgot
the Wisconsin Central train, although
he stOutly denies that, and claims that
the passenger train was ten minutes
ahead Of time, though Engineer Brooks
denies this.
Engineer Brooks was found by a
GLOBE reporter prOpped up in bed at
his home on Maria avenue shortly after
the accident. His arm had just been
dressed by the doctor, and he was suffer-
ing great pain from it and the Scaiding
lie got. He told his story as follows: Il
left the union depot on time for Castle,
and | was on time at the Seventh Street
junction. At the place of the collision
we could see nothing until they were
right on us and had no time
to even reverse the engine. / set the
air brakes and the engines struck. The
coal and everything on the tender came
piling into the cab, almost burying me
and breaking the guage cocks, thus
turning the steam on me. / was badly
Scalded but managed to crawl through
the window, though hardly know how
| wasn't going more than twelve miles
an hour at the time. | always run slow
around those curves because its bad
place. hear that the engineer on the
other engine left Post Siding with a
minute and half to make ST. Paul in;
but | don't believe that he expected to
do that because its SiX-minute run. He
must have forgotten my train"
The reporter found Engineer Sinks in
bed and suffering great pain from inter
nal injuries a. well as from the scalding
he got. He talked but little. He said !:
Il had orders to come right through.
and when | reached Post Siding
thought that had time enough to make
St. Paul. and started out, and met the
Wisconsin Central train in the cut. 1t
was certainly ahead of time, because
after was dug out of the collision it
was only then time for them to START